Kapisillit
Sign in to saveKapisillit (Danish: Lakskaj) is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. The settlement had 43 inhabitants in 2024. Kapisillit means "the salmon" in the Greenlandic language (). The name refers to the belief that the only spawning-ground for salmon in Greenland is a river near the settlement.
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- Locality
- Kapisillit
- Region
- Sermersooq
- Country
- Kalaallit Nunaat
- Population
- 52
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kapisillit
- Settlement.other_name
- Lakskaj
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kapisillit.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- 22px Sermersooq
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Morten Johnsen
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 52
- Settlement.timezone1
- Western Greenland Time
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- −02:00
- Settlement.timezone1_DST
- Western Greenland Summer Time
- Settlement.utc_offset1_DST
- −01:00
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Kapisillit (Danish: Lakskaj) is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. The settlement had 43 inhabitants in 2024. Kapisillit means "the salmon" in the Greenlandic language (). The name refers to the belief that the only spawning-ground for salmon in Greenland is a river near the settlement.
== Geography == Kapisillit is located northeast of Nuuk, near the head of Kapisillit Kangerluaq, one of the tributary fjords of the long, Nuup Kangerlua, the longest fjord on the Labrador Sea coast of Greenland, and one of the longest in the inhabited part of the country.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kapisillit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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